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Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Creating
Illusory
Events
Selves
Instead
Recent
Society
Fabric
Truth
Deepest
Wells
Truths
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Self
Flow
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The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
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Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
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What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.
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If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.
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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.
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Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.
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What is blood but the wine of life?
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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
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Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.
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In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
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There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
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Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
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